some web resources

[Doug Millison]

>========  The Scout Report                                            ==
>========  May 10, 2002                                              ====
>========  Volume 8, Number 17                                     ======
>======                                   Internet Scout Project ========
>====                                    University of Wisconsin ========
>==                              Department of Computer Sciences ========

>2.  July 1942: United We Stand [Flash]
>http://americanhistory.si.edu/1942/index.html
>
>Offered by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, this Web
>site is an attractive presentation of the early 1940's via magazine covers
>and commentary about them.  In the wake of September 11, having seen the
>phrase "God Bless America" posted on signs ranging from church fronts and
>bumper stickers to restaurants windows and gas stations, readers should
>relate to the use of the 1942 slogan "United We Stand," adopted by over five
>hundred magazines as a response to the United States' declaration of war
>during World War II.  In HTML with a skippable Flash intro, the Web site
>elegantly explains and illustrates the campaign championed by the American
>press. Scholars, as well as amateur historians and the most casual
>researchers, should find the site not only worthwhile but also enjoyable.
>For users less interested in browsing the presentation, the site provides a
>substantial search page for the 300+ magazine covers in the collection. [TS]
>

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>8.  Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism
>http://www.marquette.edu/maqom/
>
>New as of April 2002 and a work-in-progress, the site is the labor of love
>of students and scholars working in Marquette University's Department of
>Theology under the direction of Professor Alexander Golitzin.  While many
>might be inclined to believe that the site is for adepts only, nothing is
>further from the truth, as nearly every theme addressed presents a broad
>field of links to studies on their primary subject. Broken into specific
>themes or topics, the site covers a vast array of subjects from multiple
>traditions and lands. And for those who need a little help with the
>background, the site also provides a prodigious webliography of further
>online resources of biblical and exegetic studies, including links to the
>incredible Orion Dead Seas Scrolls site and the Hagiography Database. [WH]
>

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>10. Mary Louise Reynolds Collection
>http://www.artic.edu/reynolds/
>
>Mary Louise Reynolds (1891-1950) led a fascinating life at the center of the
>Surrealist circle of artists, numbering as her friends Max Ernst, Man Ray,
>Paul Šluard, AndrÈ Breton, Jean Cocteau, and Salvador DalÌ. Reynolds and
>Surrealist Marcel Duchamp were partners in a long term relationship thought
>by their friends to be far happier than most marriages. She was a book
>artist and served in the French resistance during World War II. The
>materials in the Mary Louise Reynolds Archive and her collection of rare
>books and bindings at the Art Institute of Chicago have inspired at least
>two books and several exhibitions, as well as this Web site. The site
>features four essays reprinted from the Art Institute's _Museum Studies_
>journal, illustrated with digital images of Surrealist works, and available
>in both HTML and Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) formats. There is also an online
>finding aid to the collection, and it is possible to search the Ryerson and
>Burnham Library's catalog for Reynolds collection items. One portion of the
>site (View Works of Art) brings together all the digitized works of art:
>Reynolds' book bindings, Surrealist documents, prints, and a few
>photographs. [DS]
>
>

>19. Implant Chips
>First Humans to Receive ID Chips
>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-050902chipped.story
>Family Gets Computer Chips Implanted for Medical Information
>http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/3237944.htm
>US accepts 'Big Brother' chip implant
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1911000/1911911.stm
>I, Chip?
>http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/chipimplant020225.html
>VeriChip Corporation
>http://www.adsx.com/prodservpart/verichip.html
>VeriChip Receives Favorable FDA Guidance
>http://www.adsx.com/news/2002/040402.html
>Digital Angel Takes Flight
>http://www.wirelessnewsfactor.com/perl/story/15059.html
>Digital Angel Corporation
>http://www.digitalangel.net/
>
>A group of eight people, including all members of one Florida family, had an
>implant chip, roughly the size of a grain of rice, injected under their skin
>on Friday, May 10.  Manufactured by Applied Digital Solutions (ADS), the
>chips store a special identification number that enables the retrieval of
>personal and medical information.  In the event of a medical emergency, a
>special handheld scanner activates the dormant digital implant, which
>provides identification data with which medical personnel can query ADS's
>database, the location of the patient's medical records.  Alzheimer's
>patients seem to be the most promising market for this technology, even
>though other people, like the Florida family, hope to benefit from it as
>well. Another product that ADS offers is called Digital Angel, a wearable
>global positioning system (GPS) device that, among other things, can track
>in real time the wearer's physical movements.  In the future, ADS is
>planning to release a product that will utilize both of these technologies:
>an implanted GPS-enabled chip.  Unlike VeriChip, though, the GPS-enabled
>implant would require Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, meaning
>the US market won't see its introduction until after FDA testing.  Many
>organizations, ranging from privacy advocates to religious groups, have
>already denounced VeriChip and its eventually successors, associated them
>with "Big Brother" and the biblical "Mark of the Beast."
>
>To read about the eight people that received their implants, look at the
>first and second sites, articles from the Los Angeles Times and Miami Herald
>respectively.  For a non-US perspective, view the news story posted by the
>British Broadcasting Company (BBC).  The fourth site, an extensive analysis
>of the subject from ABC News, should give readers a broader understanding of
>implanted chips and their potential uses.  Two sites from ADS are next --
>VeriChip's product pages and the press release that details a FDA's decision
>regarding VeriChip in April, 2002.  Finally, the last two sites give more
>information on Digital Angel and a sample of GPS technology already in use.
>[TS]
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